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+               <title>TV with face recognition, for improved viewer experience</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TV_with_face_recognition__for_improved_viewer_experience.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TV_with_face_recognition__for_improved_viewer_experience.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 9 Jun 2012 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Slashdot got a story about Intel planning a
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/06/09/0012247/intel-to-launch-tv-service-with-facial-recognition-by-end-of-the-year&quot;&gt;TV
+with face recognition&lt;/a&gt; to recognise the viewer, and it occurred to
+me that it would be more interesting to turn it around, and do face
+recognition on the TV image itself.  It could let the viewer know who
+is present on the screen, and perhaps look up their credibility,
+company affiliation, previous appearances etc for the viewer to better
+evaluate what is being said and done.  That would be a feature I would
+be willing to pay for.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I would not be willing to pay for a TV that point a camera on my
+household, like the big brother feature apparently proposed by Intel.
+It is an idea fetched straight out of the book 1984 by George
+Orwell.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
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                <title>Web service to look up HP and Dell computer hardware support status</title>
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@@ -35,7 +57,7 @@ supportstatus({&quot;servicetag&quot;: &quot;2v1xwn1&quot;, &quot;warrantyend&qu
 
 &lt;p&gt;It currently support Dell and HP, and I am hoping for help to add
 support for other vendors.  The python source is available on
 
 &lt;p&gt;It currently support Dell and HP, and I am hoping for help to add
 support for other vendors.  The python source is available on

-Scraperwiki and I welcome help in adding more features.&lt;/p&gt;
+Scraperwiki and I welcome help with adding more features.&lt;/p&gt;

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@@ -788,124 +810,5 @@ en liste med stasjoner på samme format som PriserVedStasjoner.&lt;/p&gt;
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-       <item>
-               <title>Debian Edu interview: Ralf Gesellensetter</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Ralf_Gesellensetter.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Ralf_Gesellensetter.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;In 2003, a German teacher showed up on the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
-mailing list with interesting problems and reports proving he setting
-up Linux for a (for us at the time) lot of pupils.  His name was Ralf
-Gesellensetter, and he has been an important tester and contributor
-since then, helping to make sure the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
-Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; release became as good as it is..&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I am a teacher from Germany, and my subjects are Geography,
-Mathematics, and Computer Science (&quot;Informatik&quot;). During the past 12
-years (since 2000), I have been working for a comprehensive (and soon,
-also inclusive) school leading to all kind of general levels, such as
-O- or A-level (&quot;Abitur&quot;).  For quite as long, I&#39;ve been taking care of
-our computer network.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Now, in my early 40s, I enjoy the privilege of spending a lot of my
-spare time together with my wife, our son (3 years) and our daughter
-(4 months).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
-project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;We had tried different Linux based school servers, when members of
-my local Linux User Group (LUG OWL) detected Skolelinux. I remember
-very well, being part of a party celebrating the Linux New Media Award
-(&quot;Best Newcomer Distribution&quot;, also nominated: Ubuntu) that was given
-to Skolelinux at Linux World Exposition in Frankfurt, 2005 (IIRC). Few
-months later, I had the chance to join a developer meeting in Ulsrud
-(Oslo) and to hand out the award to Knut Yrvin and others.  For more
-than 7 years, Skolelinux is part of our schools infrastructure, namely
-our main server (tjener), one LTSP (today without thin clients), and
-approximately 50 work stations. Most of these have the option to boot a
-locally installed Skolelinux image.  As a consequence, I joined quite
-a few events dealing with free software or Linux, and met many Debian
-(Edu) developers. All of them seemed quite nice and competent to me,
-one more reason to stick to Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Debian driven, you are given all the advantages of a community
-project including well maintained updates. Once, you are familiar with
-the network layout, you can easily roll out an entire educational
-computer infrastructure, from just one installation media. As only
-free software (FOSS) is used, that supports even elderly hardware,
-up-sizing your IT equipment is only limited by space (i.e. available
-labs).  Especially if you run a LTSP thin client server, your
-administration costs tend towards zero.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;While Debian&#39;s stability has loads of advantages for servers, this
-might be different in some cases for clients: Schools with unlimited
-budget might buy new hardware with components that are not yet
-supported by Debian stable, or wish to use more recent versions of
-office packages or desktop environments.  These schools have the
-option to run Debian testing or other distributions - if they have the
-capacity to do so.  Another issue is that Debian release cycles
-include a wide range of changes; therefor a high percentage of human
-power seems to be absorbed by just keeping the features of Skolelinux
-within the new setting of the version to come. During this process,
-the cogs of Debian Edu are getting more and more professional,
-i.e. harder to understand for novices.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;LibreOffice, Wikipedia, Openstreetmap, Iceweasel (Mozilla Firefox),
-KMail, Gimp, Inkscape - and of course the Linux Kernel (not only on
-PC, Laptop, Mobile, but also our SAT receiver)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Support computer science as regular subject in schools to make
-people really &quot;own&quot; their hardware, to make them understand the
-difference between proprietary software products, and free software
-developing.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Make budget baskets corresponding: In Germany&#39;s public schools
-there are more or less fixed budgets for IT equipment (including
-licenses), so schools won&#39;t benefit from any savings here. This
-privilege is left to private schools which have consequently a large
-share among German Skolelinux schools.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Get free software in the seminars where would-be teachers are
-trained. In many cases, teachers&#39; software customs are respected by
-decision makers rather than the expertise of any IT experts.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Don&#39;t limit ourself to free software run natively. Everybody uses
-free software or free licenses (for instance Wikipedia), and this
-general concept should get expanded to free educational content to be
-shared world wide (school books e.g.).&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Make clear where ever you can that the market share of free (libre)
-office suites is much above 20 p.c. today, and that you pupils don&#39;t
-need to know the &quot;ribbon menu&quot; in order to get employed.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Talk about the difference between freeware and free software.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Spread free software, or even collections of portable free apps
-for USB pen drives. Endorse students to get a legal copy of
-Libreoffice rather than accepting them to use illegal serials.  And
-keep sending documents in ODF formats.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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